By Xinhua
Tehran : Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday that his country will continue its nuclear program, one day after a meeting of six major powers in Berlin agreed on the major points of a UN resolution on the Iran nuclear issue.
“The Iranian nation will continue the way in pursuing our rights within the framework of international laws,” Iran’s state television quoted Ahmadinejad as saying.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Friday described the U.S. accusation of Iran nuke program as a mistake, urging Washington to admit the mistakes, local media reported.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadineja gives a speech on Nov.7 2007. He on Friday described the U.S. accusation of Iran nuke program as a mistake, urging Washington to admit the mistakes, local media reported. (Xinhua/Reuters File Photo)
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His remarks came after foreign ministers from the United States, Germany, China, France, Britain and Russia have agreed on the major points of a UN resolution on the Iran nuclear issue.
“They should know that such illegal behavior will be ineffective against the will of the Iranian nation,” Ahmadinejad said.
The Iranian president also called on the major powers to avoid repeating their past “mistakes.”
“We advise them not to repeat their past mistakes,” Ahmadinejad said. “They can not make up for the past with a new mistake.”
The draft resolution, which was agreed Tuesday by foreign ministers from the six major powers to get Iran to heed international demands for it to halt uranium enrichment, will be submitted to the UN Security Council in the next few weeks.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday that the new draft UN resolution on Iran’s nuclear program envisages additional measures against that country, but they are not harsh sanctions.
The draft resolution “clearly confirms that if Iran agrees with proposals made by the six nations, direct negotiations will be launched to settle all issues on the Iranian nuclear program — direct negotiations involving the six nations, including the United States,” Lavrov said.
The diplomatic standoff between Iran and the West began almost six years ago over suspicions that Tehran’s nuclear work is a cover for an atomic weapons program.
So far, the UN Security Council has adopted two resolutions, one in December of 2006 and the other in March of 2007, to force Iran to suspend its uranium enrichment activities and give up its nuclear programs.